Duncan Gromko
@DGromko
Socialist, teacher, cheesesteak maker and committee person with @phillydsa, PFT, UNITEHERE 274, & the 2nd ward. Also gardening, my dogs, forests
What would it take to make Zohran happen in Philly? Join Philly DSA to talk about lessons from NYC DSA and how we can use them in our city
“We make the espresso. We make the coffee. The frappuccinos and everything that brings our customers joy and happiness happen because we make it happen. And we can make it not happen, too.” Sign the No Contract, No Coffee pledge at tinyurl.com/SBWUpledge
What is going on in city hall??!! The people receiving an inappropriate photo lose their jobs but nothing happens to the person who sent it??
The story of how two top Philadelphia city officials ended up being fired less than a year after they joined Mayor Parker’s administration started with a “semi-nude” photograph neither of them sent. inquirer.com/politics/phila…
Hotel workers with @UNITEHEREPhilly are rising up for fair contracts! As our city gears up to host multiple international events in 2026, we’re depending on our hospitality workers more than ever. Let’s get them the fair compensation and respect they deserve.
⏰ The strike countdown is ON in Boston...
Workers at America's ballpark are getting ready to go ON STRIKE very soon, at noon!
Approximately 1 out of every 6 U.S. teachers works a second job.
Democratic Socialists of America Co-Chair Ashik Siddique joins us to discuss the group's growing influence in the wake of Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayoral primary win. LIVE: tinyurl.com/ypuwje4e
No person working full time should receive less than a living wage. Paying folks sub living wages is cruel and inhumane. We all deserve to enjoy our lives, we only get one.
Shame on mayor Parker “As Philadelphia’s lowest-paid municipal bargaining unit, the average DC 33 employee earns $46,000 annually, more than $2,000 below the city’s “living wage”for a single adult without children” inquirer.com/politics/phila…
The Sheraton and other Philly hotels & businesses got millions of dollars in PPP loans and still laid of thousands workers. And they're going to be raking in profits with the World Cup, PGA, all star game, and USA's 250th all in Philly next year. Pay the UNITEHERE workers!
🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…
"These are my people" - @PhillyMayor
Shame on mayor Parker “As Philadelphia’s lowest-paid municipal bargaining unit, the average DC 33 employee earns $46,000 annually, more than $2,000 below the city’s “living wage”for a single adult without children” inquirer.com/politics/phila…
Shame on mayor Parker “As Philadelphia’s lowest-paid municipal bargaining unit, the average DC 33 employee earns $46,000 annually, more than $2,000 below the city’s “living wage”for a single adult without children” inquirer.com/politics/phila…
Philly stands with UNITE HERE hotel workers! Give the workers a fair contract!
"We can't afford to give DC33 a 5% raise"
ICYMI Mayor Cherelle Parker has tapped ex-NBC10 anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah (and spouse of former Rep. Fattah) to lead Philadelphia’s civil rights agency. Story by @rw_briggs & @sbcmw inquirer.com/politics/phila…
This month, Philadelphia municipal workers, members of AFSCME District Council 33, struck for the first time in nearly 40 years - a historic event and one of the largest public sector strikes in recent memory.
- OpenAI/Anthropic lose billions & can't grow into profit - SoftBank in dire straits by funding OpenAI - Stargate (which was scaled back the day Ed wrote this) doesn't have the funds to happen - OpenAI must convert to for-profit or $20b of $30b funding wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
So stupid and harmful!
SEPTA is urging families in the Philadelphia region to start planning now for how their children will get to and from school next month. cbsnews.com/philadelphia/n…